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David Lagercrantz

David Lagercrantz

Swedish journalist

Aug 25, 2026

0:49
Could you start out by just giving a little bit of a synopsis about what Postmortem is about?
0:55
Well, I have this series.
0:57
I don't know if you have read any other books, but it's about a professor called Recke and his sort of partner, Michaela Bargas.
1:08
And I got the idea quite long ago when I had just written the Millennium Books and the continuation of the Millennium Books.
1:17
People wanted me to write my own series.
1:20
And then I sort of went back to my first literary, what I first loved in literature, and that is, of course, Sherlock Holmes.
1:29
And I thought of what I loved with Sherlock Holmes, you know, his genius, his thing with details, but I also thought what I didn't like, and that was his arrogance, you know.

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35:14
What else is coming up?

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